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Springer Earth System Sciences Germán Mariano Gasparini Jorge Rabassa Cecilia Deschamps Eduardo Pedro Tonni Editors Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern South America, 60 ka B.P.–30 ka B.P. Springer Earth System Sciences Series editors Philippe Blondel, Bath, UK Eric Guilyardi, Paris, France Jorge Rabassa, Ushuaia, Argentina Clive Horwood, Chichester, UK More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10178 Germán Mariano Gasparini Jorge Rabassa • Cecilia Deschamps Eduardo Pedro Tonni Editors Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern South America, 60 ka B.P.–30 ka B.P. 123 Editors Germán Mariano Gasparini Cecilia Deschamps División Paleontología Vertebrados, División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata Museo de La Plata Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Universidad Nacional de La Plata La Plata, Buenos Aires La Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina Argentina Jorge Rabassa Eduardo Pedro Tonni Laboratorio de Geomorfología y Cuaternario División Paleontología Vertebrados, CADIC-CONICET, Universidad Nacional Museo de La Plata de Tierra del Fuego Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Universidad Nacional de La Plata Argentina La Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina ISSN 2197-9596 ISSN 2197-960X (electronic) Springer Earth System Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-39998-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40000-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40000-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016943439 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Schnack (1941–2016) Contents Introduction ............................................ 1 Germán Mariano Gasparini, Jorge Rabassa, Cecilia Deschamps and Eduardo Pedro Tonni The Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger Climatic Events During Marine Isotopic Stage 3 ........................ 7 Jorge Rabassa and Juan Federico Ponce On the Origin of the Dansgaard–Oeschger Events and Its Time Variability ................................... 23 Silvia Duhau and Cornelis de Jager The Influence of the Geomagnetic Field in Climate Changes ......... 49 María Julia Orgeira, Ana María Sinito and Rosa Hilda Compagnucci Abrupt Climate Changes During the Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) ......................................... 81 Eduardo Andrés Agosta and Rosa Hilda Compagnucci Active Deformation, Uplift and Subsidence in Southern South America Throughout the Quaternary: A General Review About Their Development and Mechanisms .......................... 107 Andrés Folguera, Guido Gianni, Lucía Sagripanti, Emilio Rojas Vera, Bruno Colavitto, Darío Orts and Víctor Alberto Ramos The Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Valleys of the Undulated Pampa, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina ...................... 129 Adriana María Blasi, Carola Castiñeira Latorre, Gabriela Catalina Cusminsky and Ana Paula Carignano Sea Level Changes During Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Argentina ............................................ 147 Federico Ignacio Isla and Enrique Jorge Schnack vii viii Contents Paleogeographic Evolution of the Atlantic Coast of South America During Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) ........................ 155 Juan Federico Ponce and Jorge Rabassa The Continental Record of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3; ~60–25 ka) in Central Argentina: Evidence from Fluvial and Aeolian Sequences .......................... 167 Marcelo Zárate, Adriana Mehl and Alfonsina Tripaldi Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) and Continental Beds from Northern Uruguay (Sopas Formation): Paleontology, Chronology, and Climate .................................. 183 Martín Ubilla, Andrea Corona, Andrés Rinderknecht, Daniel Perea and Mariano Verde The Brazilian Intertropical Fauna from 60 to About 10 ka B.P.: Taxonomy, Dating, Diet, and Paleoenvironments ........ 207 Mário André Trinidade Dantas and Mario Alberto Cozzuol Continental Vertebrates During the Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Argentina ............................... 227 Germán Mariano Gasparini, Esteban Soibelzon, Cecilia Deschamps, Analía Francia, Elisa Beilinson, Leopoldo Héctor Soibelzon and Eduardo Pedro Tonni Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) Versus Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) Fossiliferous Marine Deposits from Uruguay........................................... 249 Alejandra Rojas and Sergio Martínez Vegetation and Climate in Southern South America during Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3): an Overview of Existing Terrestrial Pollen Records.................................. 279 Ana María Borromei and Lorena Laura Musotto Response of Diatoms to Late Quaternary Climate Changes.......... 299 Marcela Alcira Espinosa Silicophytolith Studies in South America and Argentina: Scope and Limitations for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3) ......................... 321 Margarita Osterrieth, María Fernanda Alvarez, Mariana Fernández Honaine and Georgina Erra Index ................................................. 353 Introduction Germán Mariano Gasparini, Jorge Rabassa, Cecilia Deschamps and Eduardo Pedro Tonni Abstract This volume was conceived during the Symposium “El Estadio Isotópico 3 en la Argentina y el sur de América del Sur: 60.000 a 25.000 años atrás” (The Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Argentina and southern South America: 60,000 to 25,000 years ago) held in June 2013, in La Plata, Argentina. The main purpose of this meeting was to promote the interaction of the leading scientists in various disciplines of the Geological and Paleontological Sciences of the Late Cenozoic of South America in order to update the existing knowledge on the core issues cited in the title of the symposium (e.g., geology, geomorphology, vertebrate and inverte- brate paleontology, palynology, paleomagnetism, paleoenvironmental and paleo- climatic studies, etc). This was the first time ever that these topics related to MIS 3 were publicly discussed in Argentina. The Quaternary geological history is char- acterized by cyclical climatic changes (glacial and intervals). These cyclical changes generated periodic reorganizations of the landscape and the environmental system. MIS 3 was an interstadial stage, a relatively warmer climatic period which G.M. Gasparini Á C. Deschamps División Paleontologia Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] J. Rabassa Laboratorio de Geomorfología y Cuaternario, CADIC-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia 9410, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] E.P. Tonni Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] G.M. Gasparini (&) Á J. Rabassa Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] C. Deschamps Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas (CIC), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 1 G.M. Gasparini et al. (eds.), Marine Isotope Stage 3 in Southern South America, 60 ka B.P.–30 ka B.P., Springer Earth System Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40000-6_1 2 G.M. Gasparini et al. developed roughly between 60 ka B.P. and 25 cal. ka B.P. Several very cold periods (Heinrich events) developed during MIS 3, and several paleoclimatic moments with relatively warmer conditions (Dansgaard-Oeschger events) took place in between. We wish that this first attempt to compile data about MIS 3 in the southern part of South America will be appreciated by our colleagues around the world who are interested in this fascinating period of our climatic history, that the available evidence will be thoroughly analyzed and discussed, and that our data and interpretations will be compared with the existing information emerging from the rest of the planet, and particularly, from other regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Keyword Southern South America Á Quaternary Á Marine Isotope Stage 3 Á Dansgaard-Oeschger events Á Heinrich events The idea about compiling this volume was conceived during the Symposium “El Estadio Isotópico 3 en la Argentina y el sur de América del Sur: 60.000 a 25.000 años atrás” (The Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Argentina and southern